London Newswire Archive

22-07-2006 21:39 | 12 comments

Protestor arrested at Davis Cup Picket

A protestor was arrested at the picket of the Israel-Britain Davis Cup tennis tournament in Eastbourne.
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22-07-2006 18:02 | 1 comment

Call for witness (rikki) - anarchist bookfair 2005

"i witnessed one completely unprovoked arrest" Read more >>

22-07-2006 12:08

SOLIDARITY PARK ORANGE GIG TONIGHT CANCELLED

SORRY FOR REASONS BEYOND OUR CONTROL Read more >>

22-07-2006 01:05 | 4 comments

LEBANON - DIRECT ACTION - TRAFALGAR SQUARE - 6.25pm

The BBC are broadcasting direct from Trafalgar Square tomorrow (Saturday) as part of their dance week. With many protestors leaving Hyde Park after the march, spread the word and flood the Square. Take over the media. Stop censorship. Do real direct action to show the depth of feeling about this situation. Read more >>

22-07-2006 00:52

urgent..menezes family postpone public meeting.. take action for

Meeting Postponed... Read more >>

21-07-2006 13:50

SOLIDARITY PARK GIG TONIGHT CANCELLED

GIG CANCELLATION Read more >>

21-07-2006 13:38 | 1 addition

FROM STOCKWELL TO FOREST GATE - ONE YEAR ON !

IS JUSTICE POSSIBLE IN THE WAR ON TERROR? Read more >>

21-07-2006 11:40 | 22 comments

Stop Guardian reviving Salman Rushdie backing Monica Ali attack on community

What or which is the single most pernicious ‘mainstream British media factory’ for legitimising racist falsification? It is not the London Daily Mail. We know that is what the Daily Mail wants to do. It is the Guardian which denies the accusation but does it daily. Closer examination of the Guardian’s staff composition shows that more of them follow the agenda of the racist Daily mail than would admit to doing. The Guardian’s latest crusade against the community in the East End of London has brought to the fore the latest version of a pro-racist phantom image which the Guardian then uses as the tool to enable the likes of Salman Rushdie to get back to doing what they are paid and given platform to do – justify racism under any pretext at any time. The community has been defamed by the likes of the Guardian for more than 50 years in the Eats End of London. Now they are resuming that assault via their composite
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21-07-2006 03:33

Worldwide Protests Slam G8 Support of Nuclear, Coal, Oil

The protests included large "banner drops" in multiple cities, protests of coal and oil companies, and rallies at the U.S. embassy in London and the Washington, DC home of U.S. Secretary of Energy Samuel Bodman. On Friday, protestors showed up at Bodman's home, demanding that the United States and the G8 abandon the focus on nuclear, coal, and on oil wars as "energy security." They chanted "No Coal, No Nukes, G-8 shut it down!" No arrests took place. Read more >>

20-07-2006 16:48 | 8 comments

PICKET OF DAVIS CUP BRITAIN-ISRAEL MATCH AT DEVONSHIRE PARK, EASTBOURNE

PICKET OF DAVIS CUP BRITAIN-ISRAEL MATCH AT DEVONSHIRE PARK, EASTBOURNE

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20-07-2006 15:59 | 1 addition | 2 comments

FIGHT WITH WATER, NOT GUNS!!

Mass water fight in aid of peace, tomorrow evening 21st july 2006 in parliament square, bring your own water, nearest tube westminister station , spread the word!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Read more >>

20-07-2006 09:48 | 6 comments

National Demonstration: STOP ISRAELI ATTACKS ON LEBANON AND PALESTINE

SATURDAY 22 JULY

STOP ISRAELI ATTACKS ON LEBANON AND PALESTINE Read more >>

19-07-2006 21:17 | 3 comments

Londonwide Group backs Khoodeelaar! No to Crossrail Bill

As the Westminster House of Commons Crossrail Select Committee practically winds down the main business of going through the motions of hearing objections to the Bill, concern is rising about the very shabby way that the Committee has treated the main opponents.
It is expected that the Select Committee will back the Government Crossrail Bill. Thousands of families will suffer across the East End as a result.
To prevent this becoming inevitable, a London wide democracy pressure group has today extended its support to the Khoodeelaar! Campaign against Crossrail attacks on the Brick Lane and Whitechapel Area in East London
This announcement follows a day long campaign against Crossrail hole attacks programme conference held in the Brick Lane and Whitechapel London E1 area today.
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19-07-2006 18:37

Lebonese demo Tuesday night. The blockading of Parliament.

The road outside Parliament was blocked for around 20 minutes by around 500 mostly Lebanese demonstrators. The action forced the main gates to be locked by Police so MPs wishing to drive home at the end of the session found themselves locked in.

The Police were hopelessly outnumbered so could do little except stand and watch. They called in reinforcements from just about everywhere including City of London, British Transport Police and local Westminster duty plods. Having no option but to adopt a softly, softly approach they kept well back letting the stewards gently move the protesters back into the square. They then formed a line of vans and officers across the front of the demo and remained until the protest finished. There was no violence, the protest remained loud and angry until the end.

Expect greater numbers on Saturday.
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19-07-2006 18:25 | 2 comments

Tuesday Night Lebonese Protest. Vigil for Peace in Parliament Square.

The candlelit vigil called by the Palistinian Solidarity Campaign in Parliament Square was a lot bigger than expected. Since the demo was booked events in Lebanon have spiraled with hundreds of civilians killed in airstrikes and Israel increasing its military operation with every passing day. So the half a dozen or so cops deployed found themselves policing a protest of around 2000 angry people. Direct action was inevitable.... Read more >>

19-07-2006 17:49

arrested for trying to deliver a letter

activist steve jago was stopped and searched twice this morning and then arrested. he was trying to peaceably deliver an open letter to met commissioner sir ian blair. he has so far been prevented from doing so Read more >>

19-07-2006 15:49

As London swelters and electricity prices go through the roof...

As the 5th International Workshop on Oil and Gas Depletion taking place in Italy this week, Peter Gerling of the Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources in Germant, presented his controversial outline of Coal being the prime energy of the future.... Read more >>

19-07-2006 14:26 | 1 addition | 3 comments

Protest against atacks on Lebanon and Gaza

Several hundred to a thousand people demonstrated in Parliament Square
last night against the continuing Israeli attacks on Lebanon and Gaza,
at a candle-lit vigil called by the Palestine Solidarity Campaign. Read more >>

18-07-2006 21:06 | 3 comments

Khoodeelaar! challenges UK Crossrail minsiter on railway claims

Just as Tony Blair has been shown this past week to have suffered another dramatic reduction of his image, 'thanks' to his visible alliance of stuttering supplication to G W Bush, so is the domestic UK legislature caught in a morass of unimaginative 'law'-making, as the CrossRail Bill 'scrutiny' committee has been showing by its failure to allow bona fide objectors put the evidence before it. Next week's filing in the High Court of the formal challenge against the Secretary of State is set to create a record in the history of battles to make the UK Parliament representative of basic standards of democracy that it is often claimed to typify. The constitutional contribution of the Khoodeelaar! campaign towards democratising the UK parliament will be a fitting one, given that the East End of London has been chosen by the Select Committee to be denied its say in the so-called peoples’ parliament. Read more >>

18-07-2006 17:55 | 12 comments

19 July Iran demo's 1st anniversary of gay executions

19 July 2006 is the 1st anniversary of the execution of two teenage gay men in Iran on trumped up charges. Demo's are planned around the world, incl London to mark this event and the on-going persecution of gay people in Iran.
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